I recently tried to troubleshoot some errors I saw in the event viewer. I forget what the feature is called, but windows has some startup option that will check your drivers for the right signing or something like that? So when I tried it, windows started failing to boot. Not knowing that I could disable the startup program again from safe mode, I instead did a refresh from my disc.
Thins seemed to go well after that until I started reinstalling Norton 360 while windows update was going at the same time. Windows froze up for the longest time, then I got the BSOD and when the computer rebooted itself, my computer couldn't find anything to boot. I checked BIOS and my hdd was missing from the bootup list. I was able to put it back in the startup list, and things were normal from there.
Got all my updates and everything, Norton seems to be working. But about once a week or so, usually while I'm web browsing, my computer starts to get super slow, and sometimes it eventually hangs. Sometimes when it hangs, I can wait it out and it'll recover. But sometimes, I get the BSOD again.
Now, when it happens, my hdd is missing from bios altogether, as if it is not connected. But, if I shut down, and power back up, it'll be start right back up without me even having to go into bios.
Do I have some bad hardware maybe? Or maybe some kind of malware getting into the RAM? Or is windows messed up?
Thins seemed to go well after that until I started reinstalling Norton 360 while windows update was going at the same time. Windows froze up for the longest time, then I got the BSOD and when the computer rebooted itself, my computer couldn't find anything to boot. I checked BIOS and my hdd was missing from the bootup list. I was able to put it back in the startup list, and things were normal from there.
Got all my updates and everything, Norton seems to be working. But about once a week or so, usually while I'm web browsing, my computer starts to get super slow, and sometimes it eventually hangs. Sometimes when it hangs, I can wait it out and it'll recover. But sometimes, I get the BSOD again.
Now, when it happens, my hdd is missing from bios altogether, as if it is not connected. But, if I shut down, and power back up, it'll be start right back up without me even having to go into bios.
Do I have some bad hardware maybe? Or maybe some kind of malware getting into the RAM? Or is windows messed up?